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Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$439k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$20MPhilanthropy$4.5MFood & Nutrition$3.6MHuman Services$3.3MEducation$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.7MPublic Benefit$413kCrime & Legal$390kYouth Development$370kOther$19M
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+12 grants · $4.0M
$125,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Methodist Medical Center Illinois$439,406
Chestnut Health Systems Inc$437,500
Rush University Medical Center$433,928
Rosecrance Foundation$408,285
OSF Healthcare Foundation$305,958
Primo Center for Women and Children$300,000
Centerstone of Illinois Inc$300,000
Community Foundation of Kankakee River Valley$300,000
Heritage Behavioral Health Center$300,000
Kane County Health Department$300,000
Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation$250,000
Southwest Organizing Project$250,000
Bridgeway Inc$225,000
Bridgeway Inc$216,666
Advocate Health And Hospitals Corporation$145,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mano A Mano Family Resource Center: $10k → 8%Livingston County Commission on Children and Youth: $25k → 12%Juvenile Protective Association: $440k → 14%Family Counseling Center Inc: $50k → 16%Juvenile Protective Association: $440k → 14%Milestone Inc: $86k → 15%Milestone Inc: $13k → 15%Metropolitan Family Services: $150k → 14%Milestone Inc: $10k → 15%Comprehensive Community Solutions Inc: $10k → 15%Childrens Home Association of Illinois: $150k → 14%Community Life Line: $10k → 16%Center For Youth and Family Solutions: $50k → 14%Trauma & Resilience Initiative Inc: $10k → 19%Metropolitan Family Services: $50k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $30k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $30k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $30k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $20k → 14%Telpochcalli Community Education Project Inc: $10k → 14%Grand Prairie Services: $150k → 14%Erie Neighborhood House: $55k → 14%The Night Ministry: $5k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $105k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $98k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $98k → 14%Ada S Mckinley Community Services Inc: $150k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $300k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $300k → 14%New Moms Inc: $5k → 14%Brave Space Alliance: $10k → 14%Children's Home & Aid Society of Illinois: $149k → 14%Children's Home & Aid Society of Illinois: $149k → 14%Aunt Marthas Health And Wellness Inc: $74k → 14%Aunt Marthas Health And Wellness Inc: $50k → 14%Share Our Space: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$50M · 89 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

89 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
61

Total granted

$50M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+34%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CO
    CENTERSTONE OF ILLINOIS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +69%
  • HB
    HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +189%
  • PC
    PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE ILLINOIS CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -57%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +6%
  • LL
    Loma Linda University
    one grant, 2019 · $188k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northwest Community Healthcare

NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…

Health
2
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
3
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…

Health
5
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
6
Community Health Nfp

Community health nfp is an illinois not-for-profit organization created on april 8, 1992, to provide free medical care to those who are medically uninsured and economically disadvantaged.

Health
7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
8
Community Health Improvement Center

The center's mission is to strive to provide exceptional, compassionate, and comprehensive health care to the underserved of central illinois while encouraging professional growth, teamwork, and respect toward our coworkers in the clinic…

Health
9
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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10
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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11
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill and the most unlike its peers is Trauma & Resilience Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr17%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr15%43%35–55yr17%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/141
the rest of the field
14%
8,145/58,298

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 164 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/133
Grantees still filing
106/133
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTERSTONE OF ILLINOIS INC — $2,919,960 · HealthCENTERSTONE OF ILLINOIS INCHERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER — $2,299,960 · HealthHERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTERCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $1,574,710 · HealthCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INCMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOIS — $1,351,629 · HealthMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOISRush University Medical Center — $1,071,796 · HealthRush University Medical CenterErie Family Health Foundation Inc — $994,000 · Health+48 more — $9,634,019 · Health+48 moreBoard of Trustees of the U of Illinois — $2,863,395 · OtherBoard of Trustees of the U of IllinoisSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE — $2,420,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALEKane County Health Department — $1,900,000 · OtherKane County Health DepartmentBRIDGEWAY INC — $1,075,000 · OtherTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $712,500 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $712,500 · OtherPEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $712,500 · Other+59 more — $10,013,159 · Other+59 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY — $1,700,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,206,775 · PhilanthropyROSECRANC…DELTA DENTAL OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION — $1,024,375 · PhilanthropyDELTA DEN…CRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION — $319,000 · PhilanthropyCRUSADERS…+5 more — $284,875 · Philanthropy+5 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $712,500 · Food & NutritionCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc — $712,500 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $712,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $712,500 · Food & NutritionEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK — $712,500 · Food & NutritionJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $880,140 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $600,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services — $309,940 · Human ServicesCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $301,621 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $298,850 · Human ServicesADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $149,940 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS — $149,940 · Human ServicesGRAND PRAIRIE SERVICES LLC — $149,940 · Human ServicesAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC — $124,000 · Human Services+14 more — $368,960 · Human ServicesPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $1,900,000 · EducationHOYLETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $300,000 · EducationLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $80,430 · Education+2 more — $40,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $1,614,900 · Community Improvement+1 more — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Health$19,846,074Other$20,409,054Philanthropy$4,535,025Food & Nutrition$3,562,500Human Services$3,333,331Education$2,320,430Community Improvement$1,664,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTERSTONE OF ILLINOIS INC — $2,919,960 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER — $2,299,960 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $1,900,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY — $1,700,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $1,614,900 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $1,574,710 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOIS — $1,351,629 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,206,775 over 4y, 38% of budgetBRIDGEWAY INC — $1,075,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $1,071,796 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA DENTAL OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION — $1,024,375 over 5y, 23% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc — $994,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $880,140 over 2y, 16% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $712,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc — $712,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $712,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $712,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $712,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $712,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $712,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK — $712,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $652,786 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATE NORTH SIDE HEALTH NETWORK — $626,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $600,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWELL CHILD CONFERENCE OF ELGIN — $547,832 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice — $500,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ILLINOIS CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL NETWORK — $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $480,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF ILLINOIS — $469,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCommunity Counseling Centers of Chicago Inc — $449,640 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $448,556 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPlanning Implementation and Evaluation Org — $403,115 over 3y, 42% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $399,960 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTCA HEALTH INC — $396,633 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTapestry 360 Health — $394,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $390,792 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $390,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $381,960 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO — $359,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP — $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Counties Health Centers Inc — $319,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER FAMILY HEALTH — $319,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $319,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION — $319,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation — $315,958 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $309,940 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $301,621 over 3y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CENTERSTONE OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds DELTA DENTAL OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRI-STATE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE NORTH SIDE HEALTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds WELL CHILD CONFERENCE OF ELGIN ↗
  • Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
  • Who funds THE ILLINOIS CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Community Counseling Centers of Chicago Inc ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Planning Implementation and Evaluation Org ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds TCA HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Tapestry 360 Health ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Illinois Primary Heal…United Way of Metropo…Delta Dental of Illin…Robert R McCormick Fo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Chicago Community…Visiting Nurse Associ…Northwestern Memorial…Michael Reese Health …Polk Bros Foundation …AlliancechicagoHealthy Communities F…
Illinois Primary Health Care AssociationIL78.2× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Illinois Primary Health Care Association · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Michael Reese Health Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Alliancechicago · Healthy Communities Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 164 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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